Ruthanne Bessman has been folding origami for eighteen years and is an active member of Origami USA. One of her activities as an origami teacher is working with the children in the medical school hospital of the University of Wisconsin.

Seikaiha–Cranes In Flight or Blue Ocean Wave, May 2005

The entire sculpture with nine cranes was folded from a single, square sheet of paper in which twelve cuts had been made.